Zdeněk Hoření (9 February 1930 – 12 February 2021) was a Czechoslovak journalist who served as Editor-in-Chief of ''

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'', the official newspaper of the

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Biography

Hoření began working for ''Rudé právo'' in 1954 as an editor and served as its

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correspondent from 1962 to 1968. In 1969, he became Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the party magazine ''Tribuna'', and subsequently held the same role for ''Rudé právo''. From 1983 until the end of the

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, he held the position of Editor-in-Chief. He had also served as President of the Czechoslovak Union of Journalists. He was awarded the Czechoslovak Journalist Prize in 1980, which allowed him to join the . The elected him to the of the party, and he was confirmed by the . From October 1984 to November 1989, he was a member of the secretariat of the Central Committee. During the 1976 Czech legislative election, he was elected to the

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. He was re-elected in

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. For the 1986 Czechoslovak parliamentary election, he moved to the

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, winning his bid to represent Constituency No. 64, which contained the cities of

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and

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. He served until his resignation in January 1990 after the Velvet Revolution removed the Communist Party from power. Following the Velvet Revolution, Hoření withdrew himself from public life. He worked in the editorial office of the communist newspaper ''

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'', where his daughter, Monika, now works. Zdeněk Hoření died of

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during the

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on 12 February 2021, at the age of 91, three days after his birthday.

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